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The Long Prairie Senior Center would like to invite you to come visit our center at 50-3rd St. NE, 320-732-2282. we are open Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. we have many daily activities! You can also come and just hang out with your friends, play cards, play games, do puzzles or just sit and visit...

All Minnesotans want clean water for drinking, swimming and fishing. Poll after poll shows that we all agree that clean water is really important. Insuring that the water in The Land of Sky Blue Waters is good for everybod to drink is a non-partisan issue in Minnesota. Correct?
Well, it was until...

Cooking and baking ideas
Add sliced radishes to your sandwiches for a nice crunch. This works especially well if you are trying to avoid onion breath so you can leave out the crunchy onions.
Baked beans have a new zing if you add a dash of ground cinnamon and ginger to them. Not sure you want to...

Here are upcoming events brought to you by area Great River Regional libraries:
Tech tutor
Need help with your laptop, smartphone or other device? Drop by the library for individual help during Tech Tutor time. A librarian will be available to work with you one-on-one. Please call 320-732-2332 to...

Wow the snow was melting, But what’s up with more???? It is time for it to stop snowing and we want to get sunshine and warmer weather!! It does sound like warmer days are right around the corner, so we try to keep positive. We keep busy and the time does fly by. We celebrated National Peanut...

Sometimes you have to make the best out of a bad thing. Some years back I traveled to Chihuahua in Chihuahua State in northern Mexico. While checking into the hotel my wallet was stolen. Fortunately, I had paid for my hotel and had my return bus ticket and a small amount of cash in a pocket. I had...

I don’t usually read the Star Tribune, but happened upon their editorial page for Friday, March 23, 2018. Not surprisingly, four of the five letters to the editor, were anti-gun and/or anti-gun owners. The fifth letter writer, asserts that because the police officer, who shot Philando Castile, was...

Most Todd County landowners know vegetative buffers were required on public waterways November 1, 2017 and will be required on county ditches by November 1, 2018. This is very important considering Todd County spans out over almost 1,000 square miles, has 123 public lakes, 380 miles of public...

In regards to Nancy Taft’s letter to the LP Leader of 3-21-18, “Amish no different than us”, I think I would go a bit farther and say the Amish are us. They are the “us” of a much earlier time. They live as I did, for part of my life, as a small child, no electric, no running water, (though I...

They’re at it again! A bunch of Republicans in the Minnesota Legislature want to give Xcel Energy a bag of free cash.
There’s nothing that some Minnesota Legislators like more than to transfer wealth from ordinary working and retired people to Minnesota’s wealthiest and largest corporations. Back...